‘Dreams Of Mount Fuji’
As Japan’s highest mountain, Mount Fuji has earned a place in many East Asian landscape artworks — and it’s the subject of Dreams of Mount Fuji, which is on display through March 22 at Honolulu Museum of Art. The exhibit showcases woodblock prints, paintings and sculptures depicting the mountain. It’s stocked with pieces created by about 20 artists over a 200-year period.
One of the better-known artists featured includes woodblock print designer Katsushika Hokusai. He is credited with creating some of the most recognizable Japanese woodblock prints in his series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji. To preserve these famous pieces, they will be shown in rotation (The Great Wave off the Coast of Kanagawa will be up from Jan. 14 to Feb. 8; Red Fuji from Feb. 10 to March 1; and Thunderstorm Beneath the Summit from March 3 to 22).
The exhibit first was showcased at the museum five years ago — but it’s back by popular demand.
Impressionists
This week, you’ve got a few chances to catch a spotlight tour for the newly introduced Honolulu Museum of Art exhibit, Impressionists, Post-Impressionists, Neo-Impressionists: 19th-Century Prints and Drawings.
The exhibit kicks off this week and continues through May 24. Spotlight tours are at 1:30 p.m. Jan. 20-24. The tour is a 30-minute docentled tour of the exhibit.
Impressionists showcases rarely exhibited prints, etchings and lithography.
Spotlight tours are free with museum admission. Attendees should check in at the Visitor Information Center.
Art Lunch
Spend your lunch break with artist and educator Lynn Young as she discusses her work from noon to 1 p.m. Jan. 27 at Hawaii State Art Museum. A visual and performance artist, Young, who formerly was the curator at The Contemporary Museum (now called Spalding House), often focuses her work on the magic and meaning of daily life. And it’s that theme that she pursues in her new book, Where’s My Ritspik, which she will introduce during the event. The book features a collection of Young’s poems and photography.
Art Lunch is a monthly series that features presentations by artists and cultural practitioners. The event is free and held at 250 S. Hotel St. in HiSAM’s Multipurpose Room on the first floor.
